Get to know Houston's most famous neuroscientist

Baylor's David Eagleman hosts PBS series on the brain

David Eagleman at the Blue Brain project in Lausanne, Switzerland, from a segement for "The Brain with David Eagleman," airing Wednesdays on PBS.

David Eagleman at the Blue Brain project in Lausanne, Switzerland, from a segement for "The Brain with David Eagleman," airing Wednesdays on PBS.

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David Eagleman stands before a whiteboard in his lab -- the Laboratory for Perception and Action -- at Baylor College of Medicine, for the PBS series "The Brain with David Eagleman."

David Eagleman stands before a whiteboard in his lab -- the Laboratory for Perception and Action -- at Baylor College of Medicine, for the PBS series "The Brain with David Eagleman."

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Neuroscientist David Eagleman during a meeting with researchers in his lab at Baylor College of Medicine. ( Jon Shapley / Houston Chronicle )

Neuroscientist David Eagleman during a meeting with researchers in his lab at Baylor College of Medicine. ( Jon Shapley / Houston Chronicle )

Photo: Jon Shapley, Staff

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If you have watched "The Brain with David Eagleman" on PBS (KUHT-Channel 8 in Houston), you saw a noteworthy Houstonian and caught glimpses of Houston scenery. Here are links and videos so you can get to know the show's host and one of his interesting co-stars.

Then there is the vest, or more accurately the Versatile Extra-Sensory Transducer. Lisa Gray wrote about the effort to help the hearing-impaired and to expand the human sensory experience in 2014, when there was a Kickstarter campaign.

You can see the results in this TED video.

Here's an older New Yorker piece that expounds on Eagleman's thoughts on the brain and time (also discussed on the show), and the scientist shares a key childhood memory.

Several interesting people were featured in part one of the series. One is Mike May, who lost his eyesight at the age of 3 and had a life-changing surgery that went well -- but not as some might have hoped. KQED has more of his story here.